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Moses Jolayemi, the presidential campaign coordinator of the Obi/Datti ticket in Ekiti, says Peter Obi, standard bearer of the LP, will win the presidential election if the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) is not compromised. Speaking with journalists on Saturday at a town hall meeting in Ado Ekiti, Jolayemi said if a free, […]

Sam Patten, a former official of the US state department, has been revealed to be behind the leaked documents containing ‘dirt’ on President Muhammadu Buhari in the run-up to the 2015 presidential election. An investigation by a team of newspapers, including the Guardian and Observer that revealed the identity of the Israeli hacker […]

Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno, says Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), showed the state unmatched support during the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency. Speaking on Saturday at the presidential rally in the state, the governor appreciated Tinubu for picking Kashim Shettima as his running mate. In […]

The hour is at hand. Nigerians are about to pick a new president. I am ignoring the orchestrated crises and keeping my eye on the ball. We have done elections successfully since 1999 and I am confident that this too will come and go, no matter the odds, no matter the sinister gameplan. Next […]

The Economist says Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), is the best choice for Nigeria. In a recent article titled ‘Nigeria desperately needs a new kind of leadership’, the London-based newspaper said Obi diagnoses the country’s failings more precisely than his rivals. The newspaper, however, said Obi is not […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says the state will not vote a presidential candidate that will jail or kill him when elected into office.  Speaking on Saturday at the Obio-Akpor LGA campaign rally organised by the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign council, Wike said Rivers will only vote for […]

Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo state, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to allow the old and new naira notes to co-exist. Nigerians have been battling with cash scarcity as an adverse impact of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s naira redesign policy. In the past few days, this has led to protests and […]